Chapter 44 – The Demon, Bual (1)
The elves surrendered.
It felt hopeless. As a last resort, 30 senior spiritists gathered and tried to drive away the darkness that engulfed the forest using great spirit magic…
“It’s insignificant.”
With the man’s melancholy voice, seeing that even spirit magic, which seemed to be able to inflict a fatal blow on anyone at this level, was swallowed up by darkness, even hope was abandoned.
Old elders who have lived for a thousand years, as well as newly born young children, all felt this.
That their king has returned.
“I will sacrifice the heads of those who insisted on fighting until the end, so ask for their lives to be saved…”
The man, without hesitation, sat on the throne where the queen used to sit, looking down at the elves who bowed their heads to ask for his life to be spared.
Next to the man stood a woman, like a lady-in-waiting to a king.
If Leticia’s platinum hair had a soft and mysterious glow from the moonlight, her blonde hair shimmered vividly from the sunlight.
Green eyes and a pointed nose. Her milky skin, her well-ripened body, and her white dress revealing her curves.
The original owner of the throne on which the man sits——Queen Skadi Asherad.
She looked with contempt at those who had been her own faithful subjects. She had once trusted them, but as soon as the opportunity arose she knew they were traitors who tried to usurp her throne.
“Your majesty.”
“Hmm.”
Skadi spoke to the man——Scarlett.
Scarlett made a confused face at her title as the Queen of the Elves, but since she claimed to be their king, it wasn’t a very wrong thing to say, and I couldn’t tell her not to do it, so she nodded her head.
“Leave them to me.”
“Do it. But…”
About that much, there was no problem. In the first place, Scarlett had no intention of ruling the great forest. Still, the queen here would be Skadi, and Scarlett would only have to serve her.
Scarlett asked with a subtle face at the queen’s more polite attitude than that.
“How old are you?”
“… A little more than Your Majesty.”
“I’m just asking how much it is.”
When the queen hesitated without answering right away, Scarlett sighed.
“Take it easy. Although I claim to be your king, I am not particularly interested in the sovereignty of the great forest.”
“How could I speak to the true ancestor… ?”
“Tsk.”
“Yes yes… No, I see.”
“Done. It’s awkward, so I can’t hear you.”
This was also because Scarlett was a duke of the Empire.
If Scarlet, as the true ancestor, truly claims to be the legitimate king of all human races, then her realm does not end in the Freyre Great Forest.
The Great Forest of Krefeld, which is already allied with Chepes, as well as the other three Great Forests excluding Krefeld and Freyr, and the forest where other small elven tribes gathered.
There, the Dwarf Kingdom and their territory, the mines. To the mountains and prairies of Werewolf.
The remaining territories of the continent, which the empire could not swallow, all came under Chepesche’s control.
If that happens, you won’t be able to have Chepesch as a noble in the empire.
The power of the empire, which was barely balanced by the imperial family, the north, and the magic towers of Zepes and Friedrich, collapsed at once.
Until now, Chepeshu had been in charge of trade with the dwarf mines and the elven forest, symbolizing harmony with the alien species, but it was only a mediating role.
Cepes is already a noble family with hundreds of years of history within the empire.
Although the head of household changed twice, it was Chepeshu who was also called ‘Millennial Ball’ out of reverence for its immortality.
To the empire, Chepesch was so natural and essential that it was hard to even imagine an empire without Chepesch, even if it grew too big, but neither disappeared nor weakened.
Under such circumstances, if Chepes ascends the throne, it is inevitable that the continent will be divided into two.
Arcadia Empire, the sun of the continent, and Cepes, the moon of the continent.
‘It won’t be good if the continent gets confused.’
You never know when the remnants of the demon king will appear.
I couldn’t let the continent in chaos eat away at my strength when I had to gather all the power in preparation for the event that the demon king himself descended.
“At least for now, I have no intention of sitting on the throne, so let me know.”
Still, I decided to leave it open.
If he refused the throne at all, that would be giving up on himself the influence that Scarlett could spread.
Queen Skadi, who had already lost most of her real power and subdued the rebellion with the help of her foreign powers, by saying that he might rise as a legitimate monarch at any time, as the moon of the continent, rather strengthened her legitimacy and royal authority. It becomes
How can one deny the legitimacy and authority of her queen recognized by Jinjo as the ruler of Great Forest.
As long as the master-servant relationship is secured with the queen through her blood oath, she will not lose his influence.
Rumors about what happened there today will also flow into other great forests, dwarves, and werewolf realms.
If that rumor gets into the empire, there may be confusion… , You can easily put down to that level of fuss.
‘Inside the empire, borrow the power of the princess, the northern swordsman, and the mage lord…’
In any case, only in the Holy Land, in the fight against the demon king, of course, he will lend her saintess.
And if there was an order from Scarlett, the true ancestor, it would be possible to borrow the power of an alien species that would not have had a point of contact, or even lending power, according to the original story.
The original was twisted.
However, Scarlett didn’t care much. It was because she didn’t know much information in the first place.
With future plans in her mind, Scarlett opened her mouth.
“Your son’s life is still at stake, but I have no intention of letting it live.”
“Yes…”
“Do you have any desire to save me?”
Skadi’s eyes twitched.
It didn’t look like she was thinking about saving her son’s life.
Rather, it was the look in his eyes that judged which answer would please the Great True Ancestor.
Scarlett couldn’t have known that.
He looked at her through her narrowed eyes and smiled at her pick.
“At the point of clumsily trying to roll her head, the answer already came out.”
“…”
She couldn’t answer
As a mother, she did not worry about saving her son’s life, but at the point of worrying about what answer would win the favor of a powerful person, it was revealed that she had no desire to save her son’s life.
“It is better that way.”
Scarlett’s words were sincere.
She does not know when and how she would betray her son with a grudge, if she had any human qualities left in her, her maternal love.
In this case, even a blood oath is useless. Because he would burn his own life only to avenge her.
But if she’s the cold-blooded, iron-blooded queen of her kind, who lusts for her power and pursues her own honor, it’s a different story for her.
The moment they made a blood oath, the option of betrayal itself was erased from her mind, and she would do anything for the favor of her master, Scarlett.
‘I don’t know if her son’s accident was so big that even her maternal love evaporated, or if she wasn’t, or if she was that kind of woman from the beginning.’
Scarlett reached out her hand and gently squeezed Skadi’s voluptuous breasts.
Flinch. She shuddered, but she didn’t pull back easily. She calmly closed her eyes and kept her Scarlett by her side.
‘I think it would be fun to fall for a woman who fell in love with power.’
Take what you take
There was no love between the queen and him. So, she was rather comfortable. A relationship of loyalty instead of giving and receiving power.
No matter what happens between that relationship, there will never be a fresh feeling like love or anything.
That was enough.
“Don’t leave the aftermath to me.”
Disposing of the nobles and organizing the kingdom in chaos.
The Queen closed her eyes and replied.
“Yes.”
*
I handed over all the troublesome things to the queen, so I ordered the crows to search the palace.
The queen didn’t stop. It was more accurate that she was unstoppable.
How could she stop me All the initiative is already in my hands.
Not long after the crows searched the palace, the remains of the sacrifices the prince had used to make a pact with the devil, as well as the treasures he had probably stolen from the treasury to buy the devil’s favor, began to appear in front of me.
“…”
Even though she didn’t show it because she was in front of me, Queen Skadi’s complexion turned blue.
Even though the anger rose to the top of her head, she bit her lips to hold back that she was in front of me, and a clear stream of blood flowed from her mouth.
Tsk.
What’s wrong with this woman? It wasn’t that she didn’t feel sorry for anything, but she pulled out her handkerchief.
“Wipe it.”
“… Thank you.”
“I’m just being careful, in case Magi’s belongings get stained with the blood of you, the contractor’s family, and something annoying happens.”
Even if I said it, it was an unlucky line.
I was just telling the truth anyway. Skadi was the mother of Boual’s contractor, and then it wasn’t entirely wrong to say that Boual’s magi might react to Skadi’s blood.
Of course, I planned to bring out Boual and kill him, but…
It is useless here. Because I have to bring the prince.
“Is this all?”
“Yes. It looks like you brought everything he said during the interrogation.”
It is probably true as it is said by the ‘eye’ specialized in search.
“Good work.”
The shadow swallowed up what it had gathered. They were planned to be stored in a subspace in the shadows for a while.
All the materials needed to summon Boal were gathered.
